Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Reed v. Slakan
470 U.S. 1035
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1985-03-04
- Topic
- labor-and-employment
How later courts describe this case
- imposing liability upon supervisors where violation was a “natural and foreseeable consequence of the supervisors’ indifference”
- prison administrators had firmly established duty to ensure that weapons were not misused against inmates
- although convicted prisoner's misconduct merited some disciplinary response, means used were so disproportionate under the circumstances as to violate the prisoner's eighth amendment rights
Citator
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C. A. 4th Cir. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari denied.